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  • The rise and fall of the British nanny.

    • Text
    • London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1972.
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLE 77-484Offsite
  • When Miss Emmie was in Russia : English governesses before, during, and after the October revolution / Harvey Pitcher.

    • Text
    • London : Murray, 1977.
    • 1977
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 78-1257Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Uneven developments : the ideological work of gender in mid-Victorian England / Mary Poovey.

    • Text
    • Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1988.
    • 1988
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLE 88-1214|m(SASB)Offsite
  • Tyrant or victim? : a history of the British governess / Alice Renton.

    • Text
    • London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 91-4183Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Anna Leonowens : a life beyond the King and I / Leslie Smith Dow.

    • Text
    • Lawrencetown Beach, N.S. : Pottersfield Press, 1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 92-1657Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • A distant thunder : intimate recollections of the Kaiser's court / Anne Topham ; [glossary and translations by Antje Purucker Kandell ; edited by Jill Mason ; additional research by Hazel Waldner and Maximilian Crisp].

    • Text
    • New York, N.Y. : New Chapter Press, c1992.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 93-1510Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Lettre adressée a Monseigneur le duc d'Orléans sur l'éloignement de ses enfans, proposé & projetté dernièrement par Madame de Sillery.

    • Text
    • [Paris] : De l'Imprimerie de Laporte, [1790?]
    • 1790
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KVR 2854Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • [Album of photographs of Japan] [graphic].

    • Still image
    • 189-?
    • 1890
    • 1 Resource

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  • The little princesses / Marion Crawford ; with an introduction by A.N. Wilson.

    • Text
    • London : Duckworth, 1993.
    • 1993-1950
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFF 94-4220 ---Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • The turn of the screw / Henry James ; edited by Peter G. Beidler.

    • Text
    • Boston : Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, c1995.
    • 1995
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 95-13074Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • The Victorian governess / Kathryn Hughes.

    • Text
    • London ; Rio Grande, Ohio : Hambledon Press, 1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 95-10806Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Anna and the King of Siam [by] Margaret Landon, illustrated by Margaret Ayer.

    • Text
    • New York, The John Day company [1944]
    • 1944
    • 2 Items
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    Text AN (Leonowens) (Landon, M. D. M. Anna and the King of Siam)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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    Text AN (Leonowens) (Landon, M. D. M. Anna and the King of Siam)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The governesses : letters from the colonies, 1862-1882 / Patricia Clarke.

    • Text
    • Hawthorn, Vic. : Hutchinson of Australia, 1985.
    • 1985
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 96-14104Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • The black fan [by] Mary Boyle O'Reilly.

    • Text
    • Chicago, New York, The Reilly & Lee Co. [c1928]
    • 1928
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text NBO (O'Reilly, M. B. Black fan)Offsite
  • The web of days, by Edna Lee.

    • Text
    • New York, D. Appleton-Century Co. 1947
    • 1947
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text NCW (Lee, E. L. M. Web of days)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Zāhirat al-khadam wa-al-murabbiyāt wa-abʻaduha al-ijtimāʻīyah fī al-duwal al-Khalījīyah / ʻAbd al-Raʼūf al-Jardāwī.

    • Text
    • al-Kuwayt : Dhāt al-Salāsil, 1990.
    • 1990
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *OFK 97-3197Offsite
  • Jane Eyre / Charlotte Brontë ; edited by Beth Newman.

    • Text
    • Boston : Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, c1996.
    • 1996
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 97-18800Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • A galaxy of governesses.

    • Text
    • London, D. Verschoyle [1954]
    • 1954
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text SSG (Howe, B. Galaxy of governesses)Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *R-Pforz EDU *(Howe, B. Galaxy of governesses)Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319

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  • The governess : an anthology / edited by Trev Broughton and Ruth Symes.

    • Text
    • Stroud, Gloucestershire : Sutton Publishing, 1997.
    • 1997
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFF 98-116Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Otra vuelta de tuerca / Henry James ; estudio introductorio, cronología y notas de Vladimiro Rivas Iturralde.

    • Text
    • Quito, Ecuador : LIBRESA, [1996]
    • 1996
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 98-2167Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • A governess in the age of Jane Austen : the journals and letters of Agnes Porter / edited by Joanna Martin.

    • Text
    • London ; Rio Grande, Ohio : Hambledon Press, 1998.
    • 1998
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 98-7488Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Reproductive prints after Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin [graphic]

    • Still image
    • ca. 1848
    • 1848
  • At home with the gentry : a Victorian English ladys diary of Russian country life / attributed to Amelia Lyons ; edited by John McNair.

    • Text
    • Nottingham, England : Bramcote Press, 1998.
    • 1998
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 00-1522Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • The complete governess : a course of mental instruction for ladies; with a notice of the principal female accomplishments : intended to facilitate the business of public establishments, and abridge the labour of private education / by an experienced teacher.

    • Text
    • London : Printed for Knight and Lacey ... ; Dublin : Sold by Westley and Tyrrel, 1826.
    • 1826
    • 1 Item
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    Text Pforz (Mudie/Complete) 1826Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319

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  • Caroline Mordaunt; or, The governess. By Mrs. Sherwood.

    • Text
    • London, W. Darton and son [1835]
    • 1835
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 9-NASY (Sherwood, M. M. B. Caroline Mordaunt. 1835)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • The sound of music [videorecording] / Thomas Viertel, Steven Baruch, Richard Frankel, Marc Routh, Jujamcyn Theaters, SFX Theatrical Group, Dede Harris/Jeslo Productions, The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, Jay Binder, Martin Rabbett present ; music by Richard Rodgers ; lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II ; book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse ; [suggested by "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers" by Maria Augusta Trapp ; directed by Susan H. Schulman ; choreography by Michael Lichtefeld ; [video director] Stucker ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Betty L. Corwin, director.

    • Moving image
    • San Francisco, c2000.
    • 2000
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image NCOV 2424Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT

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  • Caroline Mordaunt; or, the Governess / by Mrs. Sherwood.

    • Text
    • London: William Darton and son, [1853]
    • 1853
    • 1 Item
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    Text 9-NASY (Sherwood, M. M. B. Caroline Mordaunt. 1853)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Desert governess : an Englishwoman's personal experience with the Saudi royal family / Phyllis Ellis ; edited by Gordon Medcalf.

    • Text
    • Bridgnorth : TravellersEye, 2000.
    • 2000
  • Jane Eyre [videorecording] / Annette Niemtzow, Janet Robinson, Pamela Koslow, Margaret McFeeley Golden, Jennifer Manocherian, and Carolyn Kim McCarthy present ; based on the novel by Charlotte Bronte ; book and additional lyrics by John Caird ; music and lyrics by Paul Gordon ; directed by John Caird & Scott Schwartz ; [video director] Stucker ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.

    • Moving image
    • New York, c2001.
    • 2001
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image NCOV 2519 Videodiscs 1 and 2Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT

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  • Jane Eyre [videorecording] / Brooklyn Academy of Music, Bruce C. Ratner, chairman of the board, Karen Brooks Hopkins, president, Joseph V. Melillo, executive producer, presents ; [produced by] Shared Experience ; joint artistic directors, Nancy Meckler and Polly Teale ; producer, Rachel Tackley ; adapted and directed by Polly Teale ; [based on the novel by Charlotte Brontë] ; [video prod. company] Character Generators, Inc.

    • Moving image
    • Brooklyn, c2000.
    • 2000
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image NCOV 2601Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT

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  • Ḥikāyatī maʻa shaghghālatī : qiṣaṣ wa-maʼāsin wa-ʻibar wāqiʻīyah fī ḥayāt al-khādimāt / Buthaynah al-Sayyid al-ʻIrāqī.

    • Text
    • al-Riyāḍ : Dār Ṭuwayq lil-Nashr wa-al-Tawzīʻ, 2000.
    • 2000
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *OGO 03-750Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Adèle : Jane Eyre's hidden story / Emma Tennant.

    • Text
    • New York : William Morrow, c2002.
    • 2002
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 03-8944Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Uncle Silas : a tale of Bartram-Haugh / by J. Sheridan Le Fanu ; illustrated by Charles W. Stewart.

    • Text
    • London : Folio Society, 1988.
    • 1988-1864
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 13-5301Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Observations on the most important subjects of education : containing many useful hints to mothers, but chiefly intended for private governesses.

    • Text
    • London : Printed for W. Richardson ...; and sold by Darton, Harvey, & Darton ...; White, Cockrane, and Co. ...; J. Harris ...; and Tabart and Co. Juvenile Library ..., 1812.
    • 1812
    • 1 Item
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    Text Pforz (Dallaway, R. C. Observations on the most important subjects of education)Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319

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  • I could be good to you / Charlotte Keppel.

    • Text
    • New York : St. Martin's Press, c1980.
    • 1980
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 81-2332Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Such constant affectionate care : Lady Charlotte Finch royal governess & the children of George III / Jill Shefrin.

    • Text
    • Los Angeles, CA : Cotsen Occasional Press, 2003.
    • 2003
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Map Div. 04-2767Schwarzman Building - Map Division Room 117

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  • Letters to a young governess : on the principles of education, and other subjects connected with her duties / By Susan F. Ridout.

    • Text
    • London : Published by Orger and Meryon ..., [1840?]
    • 1840
    • 1 Item
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    Text Pforz (Ridout, S. Letters) 1840Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319

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  • The sultan's seal / Jenny White.

    • Text
    • New York : W. W. Norton, c2006.
    • 2006
    • 1 Item

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    Text JFE 06-1424Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • New York City : CMS, [1970]
    • 1970
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 53594 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Colette et Pauline sans témoin / Pauline Vérine ; préface de Anne de Jouvenel ; présentation de Nicole Vaillant Dubus.

    • Text
    • Nice : Vaillant, [2006]
    • 2006
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ReCAP 07-11284Offsite
  • Die Erzieherin von Königin Luise : Salomé de Gélieu / Claudia von Gélieu ; unter Mitarbeit von Christian von Gélieu.

    • Text
    • Regensburg : F. Pustet, c2007.
    • 2007
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ReCAP 08-6000Offsite
  • Jane Eyre on stage, 1848-1898 : an illustrated edition of eight plays with contextual notes / [edited by] Patsy Stoneman.

    • Text
    • Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.
    • 2007
    • 1 Item

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    Text JFE 07-4306Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Deti buri : roman / Din Kun︠t︡s ; [per. s angl. M.K. ︠I︡Akushinoĭ].

    • Text
    • Moskva : ︠T︡Sentrpoligraf, 2004.
    • 2004
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *QDY 07-3596Offsite
  • Cesira e Benito : storia segreta della governante di Mussolini / Gianni Scipione Rossi.

    • Text
    • Soveria Mannelli : Rubbettino, c2007.
    • 2007
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ReCAP 08-5383Offsite
  • Other people's daughters : the life and times of the governess / Ruth Brandon.

    • Text
    • London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008.
    • 2008
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 08-2578Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Bombay Anna : the real story and remarkable adventures of the King and I governess / Susan Morgan.

    • Text
    • Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.
    • 2008
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 08-5550Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Nurse Matilda.

    • Text
    • New York, c1964.
    • 1964
    • 2 Items
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    Text J FIC BOffsite
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    Text J FIC BSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Juliana Oakley : a tale / by Mrs. Sherwood ; revised by the Committee of Publication.

    • Text
    • Philadelphia : American Sunday School Union, 1827
    • 1827
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KH 1827 Sherwood 11-520Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • The sound of music [videorecording] / Drury Lane Productions, Drew DeSantis, producer, Abigail DeSantis, producer, Kyle DeSantis, producer, William Osetek, artistic director, Jason Van Lente, producer, Tom Van Lente, producer, presents ; music by Richard Rodgers ; lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein ; book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse ; suggested by "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers" by Maria Augusta Trapp ; directed & choreographed by Rachel Rockwell.

    • Moving image
    • Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., 2012.
    • 2012
    • 1 Item
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    Moving image NCOV 3792 Videodiscs 1 and 2Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT

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  • Agnes Grey ; The tenant of Wildfell Hall / Anne Brontë ; with an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett.

    • Text
    • New York : Knopf, 2012.
    • 2012
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 13-523Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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